Liz Hughes has a long history of working in film and digital media. She
has written and directed short films that have screened at over 100 film
festivals and have won twenty-two international awards including prizes
for Best Short Film and Audience Prizes. Her films have been featured
in a number of critical journals. Most recently Cat’s Cradle was
featured in Richard Raskin’s book, The Art of the Short Fiction
Film: Nine Modern Classics alongside the films of Roman Polanski and
Jim Jarmusch.

Liz has directed documentaries and TV drama for the Central Australian
Aboriginal Media Association, Disney Television and Channel Seven. She
directed three episodes of Short Cuts, winner of the Australian Film Institute
award in 2002 for Best Children’s TV Series. As Artistic
Director of Experimenta, Liz curated the highly successful Prototype exhibition
and co-curated Experimenta’s 2003 major exhibition, House of
Tomorrow, touring nationally and internationally in 2004 and 2005.
She was one of three curators for the Seoul International Media Art Biennale
in Korea in 2004-2005.

Emma McRaeAssistant Curator

Emma McRae has been working with new media and video since 1996. Her experimental
video works have been screened and performed at galleries and festivals
nationally and internationally including ISEA, Japan; Futuresonic,
Manchester, UK; Sound Summit, Newcastle, Australia; Champ
Libre, Montreal, Canada; Gwangju Biennale, Korea; and Vooruit,
Gent, Belgium. Recently, Emma was project manager and curatorial assistant
for I thought I knew but I was wrong: New Video Art from Australia,
an Australian Centre for the Moving Image/Asialink touring exhibition.